The Anambra State Government last Monday lived up to her promise of celebrating the six students of Regina Pacis Model School, Onitsha who won the World Technovation Challenge Competition recently held in San Fransisco, USA. At an elaborate ceremony at the Governor’s Lodge, Amawbia, the state governor, Chief Willie Obinao, gave each of the girls a cash reward of N1 ...

By Fr. Pat Chukwuma Amobi Abraham was a faithful worshiper of the Almighty God. God commanded him to leave his country home to another place. Abraham obeyed without reserve. Unfortunately, Abraham and his wife Sarah were childless and they were advanced in age. At that time Sarah has entered her menopause, yet God promised them that their children would be ...

By Obunike Charles C. It is obvious that higher institutions (Monotechnics, Colleges of Education, Polytechnics, Universities etc), are a places where academic qualifications are acquired majorly by attending lectures, writing and submitting assignments and passing examinations of all kinds. It is also relevant to note that for any person who can proudly defend his or her acclaimed academic qualification(s) on ...

By Gozie Francis Moneke, Esq. Executive Director, HREP Over many years it became a common and accepted practice in different states in Nigeria including Anambra State that during monthly environmental States, which usually holds on the last Saturday of every month, people, are mandates not to move about or go about their normal businesses between the hours of 7am and ...

By Ikeugonna Eleke Anambra State governor, Chief Willie Obiano, has awarded scholarship to six Anambra girls who recently bagged gold in a Technovation Competition in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, USA. Obiano who gave out N1million to each of the six girls, announced that the state would train them in the university to first degree level. The governor made the announcement ...

By Peter Nwasike With the discovery of the month of River Niger, where it entered into Atlantic Ocean, by John and Richard Lander (Lander Brothers) in 1830, European merchants started to open Inland Trading with the Africans along the River Niger. Formerly, they concentrated along the Atlantic Coast from Badagry-Lagos-Bonny-Calabar. A Liverpool merchant, Macgregor Laird, started the inland trading in ...

By Chioma Ndife The newly inaugurated Senator Victor Support Group of Abatete Ward has vowed to see that the member representing Anambra Central Senatorial District in the senate, Senator Victor Umeh, returns to the Red Chamber come 2019. The twenty-two member coordinators of Senator Victor Umeh Support Group, Abatete Ward, who were inaugurated on Saturday, August 18, at residence of ...

By Ikeugonna Eleke Ahead of the 2019 general elections, the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, has said it will field a presidential candidate for the 2019 general elections. The party, rising from a critical deliberation in Awka, announced the resolve, saying the party had zoned the presidential candidacy to the north, while the vice ...

…Welcomes 2018/2019 Episcopal Household Seminarians By Abuchi Onwumelu Awka Diocesan Priests, Religious, 2017/2018 out-going and 2018/2019 in-coming Episcopal Household recently filed out at St. Patrick’s Catholic Cathedral’s refectory to witness the celebration of Bishop Paulinus Ezeokafor’s Annual Iwaji Ceremony. The visibly happy priests were seen in their numbers adorning different traditional attires, reports Abuchi Onwumelu. Speaking immediately after cutting the ...

By Jude Atupulazi When the military struck for the first time in Nigeria in January 1966, they gave their reason for intervening as the unacceptable situation in the country as at the time. Chief among those problems were large scale corruption by the politicians of the day, chaotic politicking and violence. That military intervention marked the beginning of that phenomenon ...

By Jude Atupulazi For those conversant with happenings in our country, expecting anything good from here is much like expecting water in the middle of the desert. Yes, that is how, not just Nigerians, but others, see our country. This perception is no thanks to the activities of fraudsters and all manner of despicable people who abound in their numbers ...

In response to recent sexual abuse crises, the Bishop of Madison, Wisconsin, has said that the Catholic Church must renew its conviction to identify and reject sin, and admit that a homosexual culture among some clerics has caused great harm in the Church. The bishop also called Catholics to join him in offering acts of reparation for the sins of ...

By Egodi Nkiruka Okeke In a bid to re-orientate and help in curtailing poverty in society, the Anambra State Community and Social Development Agency, CSDA, held a One-Day Sensitization Seminar in partnership with the World Bank last Tuesday at Orumba North Local Government Hall, Ajalli. The meeting was strictly for traditional rulers, presidents general, women’s leaders and youth leaders of ...

In the Central African Republic’s Diocese of Bangassou, several Catholic institutions have taken in displaced Muslims who face violence at the hand of Christian militias. The CAR has suffered violence since December 2012, when several bands of mainly Muslim rebel groups formed an alliance, taking the name Seleka, and seized power. In reaction to the Seleka’s attacks, some Central Africans ...

By Chioma Ndife The Department of Agricultural Science Education, Federal College of Education (Technical), Umunze has organized a one day workshop on modern skills in production of high quality garri. The Training organized at the Educational Trust Fund Centre of the institution was necessitated following the report made available to the general public by the Federal Ministry of Health which ...

By Ukamaka Ometa The Catholic Altar Servers Association of Nigeria (CASAN), Abagana Deanery held her cultural fiesta on Sunday, 12th August, 2018 at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, Abagana, Njikoka L.G.A., Anambra State. The event which began with a Holy Mass witnessed the performances from different parishes in the deanery. The Parishes include St. Mark’s, St. Martin’s, St. Michael’s, ...

By Courtney Grogan Washington D.C., Aug 16, 2018 / 03:16 am (CNA).- Fr. Thomas Berg is a priest of the Archdiocese of New York, a former Legionary of Christ, and professor of moral theology, vice rector, and director of admissions at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Dunwoodie, NY. He is author of Hurting in the Church: A Way Forward for Wounded ...

By Abuchi Onwumelu Succour has come the way of the people of Unubi in Nnewi South Constituency I with the commissioning of a water borehole to end their perennial search for water from neighbouring communities. The project, which was executed by the member representing Nnewi South Constituency I in the Anambra State House of Assembly, Mr Kingsley Iruba, is situated ...

By Jude Atupulazi Most people present at the Immaculate Heart Hospital Aguleri, venue of Hon. Pharm. Obinna Emeneka’s Free Medical Outreach, Saturday, August 18, could not hold back their emotions as a sick old woman broke down in tears of joy after taking delivery of a wheel chair donated by the House of Assembly member representing Anambra East State Constituency, ...

By Abuchi Onwumelu The Federal Road Safety Corps, Anambra State Command Mobile Court in Awka, has convicted thirty four motorists for various road traffic offences. The Anambra State Sector Commander of the Corps, Mr. Sunday Ajayi, while speaking to journalists, disclosed that the measure would go a long way in reducing road traffic accidents, and ensure the safety of motorists ...